House Speaker Dan Hawkins and Senate President Ty Masterson made clear early on they wanted little else this session than cuts, cuts, cuts. Everyone else seemed to want the tax cuts, too. Screw the retirees receiving pensions from the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. Laura Kelly and legislative leaders appears to privilege income tax cuts above all else. Meanwhile, Kansas legislators scuttle around them begging for scraps from the table, hoping to be recognized as good boys and girls in the service of perverse plutocrats.

Source: CNN June 17, 2024 09:37 UTC